You could have made this loss, but didn’t. I won’t lie, I am somewhat disappointed.

I’ll give you the point on Antarctica, but using multiple different projections is somehow even worse imho

Except, that your picture shows the continents in the usual Mercator projection distorted way. This type of projection makes countries nearer to the poles look way larger than they actually are.

I have a photography program, that is a “buy once” model, but if you bought it, you can get a subscription for updates on-top. Once you unsubscribe the updates stop, but aren’t retracted. I find that to be a very reasonable solution.